Seattle man Alex Chiu died after falling 3,000 feet while ski mountaineering on Mount McKinley's West Buttress route in ...

A Seattle man’s body was recovered in Alaska after he fell about 3,000 feet while hiking at Mount McKinley this week, the National Park Service said.

A landslide near Blatten, Switzerland submerged an entire village in the Swiss Alps, leaving most of the homes and buildings ...

Foxes are no longer content with the woods. Increasingly, they're breeding in suburban neighborhoods, creating new risks for ...

GENEVA (AP) — A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

It happened after a large chunk of the Birch Glacier above the village had broken off. The village of about 300 people had already been evacuated, but one man remains missing. A huge piece of ...